Coming Sunday: An Easter story of loss, love and faith

Mar. 28, 2013

Ryan and Anumeha's wedding. / Special to the Register

Two days after the due date of Anu and Ryan Galloway’s first child, a son, he stopped moving in the womb. Ezra was delivered stillborn, an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, in early January.

The couple planned to baptize Ezra this weekend at St. Augustin Catholic Church in Des Moines, following the Easter Vigil ceremony to join the Catholic faith. In the years prior, the couple had embarked on a journey of faith discovery, eventually deciding to join the Catholic church against the wishes of their parents – Ryan’s devout evangelical Baptists, Anu’s Hindus.

Now Anu and Ryan would have to bury their child.

But in death, Ezra would bring this young couple closer together, and help them understand what faith truly meant to them.

Read “After Ezra: An Easter Story,” by reporter Mike Kilen, in the Des Moines Sunday Register and online at DesMoinesRegister.com.